First photo walk of 2013..
Categories: photos
Date: 02 January 2013 14:07:24
(With apologies to Messrs Rankin and Fox of the Photo Show on the British Tech Network. The following blog proves if nothing else that I may listen to the podcast but I don't neccessarily take anything in...)
During the week, so I don't get to join in with it as I'm normally working, there's a local group that meets up to do walks in the local area... But every Jan 1 the group meets up and do a walk around the rivers and man made lakes and so on in the local area. And excellent fun it is to (bar the fact that the beginning of it normally goes past a sewage works which is a bit of a trial).
As with most years I end up towards the back of the group as I like to take photos and the rest of the group likes to walk and talk (except for the year where my daughter and I were walking and fell through a manhole in the ground that the cement had perished around. That was a fun moment, both of us standing on electrical cabling with bruised knees from the metal plate that had fallen back onto us. Compounding insult to injury I then had to carry my daughter home as she felt she had come the worse off out of the deal. Hey ho.
This year I took my trusty iPhone 4S and olloclip but, near the end of the 90 minute walk I saw something that had me going home to pick up a Christmas present in order to do the whole walk all over again.
First off, the walk:
(on a wooden bridge, taken using Autostitch app. I do want to try and flatten it out with the Photoshop CS6 lens correction tool but haven't sussed how to use that yet...)
And then I saw this - a shower of fungi between leaves and rotting wood...
And I took this using the macro side of the Olloclip:
Which then reminded me that one of my Christmas presents (from myself to myself) was a card fold out macro lens for my iPhone, so, once the walk was completed I dashed back home, made the papercraft add on, and went out to try and find the mushrooms again...
(Olloclip and paper craft macro lens add on, as suggested by the marvellous Mr Rankin of the British Tech Network)...
The following pictures were taken with the Olloclip and card add on. Hope you like. More on my Flickr stream.
(both Olloclip)
(both card add on).
As you can see the Olloclip gives you less distortion around the outside edges (and of course it also gives you two extra modes and is a wondrous thing) but the cardboard DIY macro lens is a fabulous object, fun to make, fun to play with and only a fiver :) I'll try and do a proper comparison later but in the short term the response is that I'm more than happily carry both in my pocket when out walking and have since bought two more card lenses for friends...